Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: Cloudy and muggy
I love maps. Maybe it’s the same visual appeal that makes me love picture books. I think you can get an idea of how the mapmaker thinks …
Is it NEW?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: Hot and sunny
Reading through the Book Expo web site in preparation for the BEA trade show this coming weekend, I am struck by the use of the word “new.” …
Big Apple Time
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: Almost hot and muggy
Another Memorial Day, which means the first-of-summer holidays and celebrations for most folks. For those of us in the book business, it usually means a trip …
What’s on Top?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: warm and cloudy
I’ve written about the content of titles this week and their length, appropriateness, etc., but I haven’t said much about their looks, their style and where they …
The Long and the Short of It
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: Hot and windy
How many words should a title have? Well, that depends on a lot of things, but subtitles often carry the freight of conveying the content while the …
Titles Across Time
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: Just plain HOT
In the further exploration of titles, what makes a good one, and what makes an appropriate one, I’ve resorted to my Oxford Universal Dictionary on Historical Principles…
"What's in a Name…"
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: Hot for Spring
I was browsing the bookstores and my local library last week, and some things I’ve known for some time about titles were readily evident:
1) Titles are …
Character–Is That Me I See?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: Warm and cloudy
Interviewers often ask authors about the connection between a fictional character and the author’s mother, father, husband, wife, child, and the author him or herself. Just last …
Characters–Human or Not?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: 65 and spring rain
Do protagonists have greater appeal to readers if they are human, or is it more important that a character simply exhibit some human characteristics? Animal characters …
Characters–Cardboard or Electric?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books&Such office, Nashville
Weather: 70s and breezy
One thing is clear–a whole lot of people are writing about “fictional character development”! According to Google today, there are 372,000 entries for that topic. Reading a few of …